Dream Weaver Collection | Largest Gallery of Art-to-Wear in USA
Ranked #7,300 in Fashion & Beauty, #112,612 overall
Art Couture on The Circle
When you step into Dream Weaver Collection on St Armands Circle in Sarasota on the west coast of Florida, you feel as though you've entered an art gallery. And you are right!
The Dream Weaver Collection showcases fiber art and jewelry designed for wearability yet also created as a serious and unique artistic statement.
Dream Weaver Collection presents more than 50 top North American fiber artists and designers to discriminating fashionistas in Sarasota and Martha's Vineyard. The largest gallery of fine Art-to-Wear in the country, the store helps women showcase their personality in art couture.
Photo: Louis Wery
Dream Weaver Collection
ST. ARMANDS CIRCLE
364 St. Armands Circle
Sarasota, FL 34236
Telephone 941.388.1974
MARTHA'S VINEYARD
One South Water Street
Edgartown, MA 02539
Telephone 508.627.9683
Dream Weaver
A Look at Dream Weaver Collection
St Armands Circle Location
Generous sized showroom allows shoppers to choose from a variety of artist works. Photo: Louis Wery
About Dream Weaver
- Under the Dream Weaver's Spell | Sarasota Magazine
- "I can't believe I've lasted this long in the fashion business and kept my sanity," McKeon quipped as she celebrated the 25th anniversary of the Dream Weaver Collection with longtime supporters of her Art to Wear concept.
- O-So-Marvelous Ready for the Inaugural Ball? We shop Mrs. O's designers in Sarasota | Sarasota Magazine
- Maria Pinto, the Chicago-based designer whose trunk shows have played annually to standing room only crowds at Dream Weaver on St. Armands Circle and will do so on January 22 and 23 -- right after the inauguration. What timing! Michelle Obama wore Pinto's clothes way before the campaign began, and Pinto may well be in the running. Dream Weaver's founder Joan McKeon says the collection is a hit in Sarasota because it's the essence of urban chic. "Our customers get it [urban chic]: they're sophisticated women who travel - we don't sell to kids," McKeon explained.
Artful Windows
Maria Pinto
Included in Dream Weaver Collection
Yeohlee Tang | House of Yeohlee
Included in Dream Weaver Collection
Paul Sisti
Included in Dream Weaver Collection
Paula Lishman
Included in Dream Weaver Collection
Wooden Ships & Iron Men: The Maritime Art of Thomas Hoyne
By Reese Palley and Marilyn Arnold Palley
Wooden Ships & Iron Men: The Maritime Art of Thomas Hoyne
Amazon Price: $13.00 (as of 05/26/2012)
Tom Hoyne worked as a successful artist in advertising when, in mid-life, he received a cancer diagnosis. Despite the prediction that he had two years to live, Hoyne lived for 17 more years, during which he produced some of the most dramatic paintings of America's maritime past. This volume represents the first full presentation of Hoyne's work and includes more than 100 reproductions. many portraying the beauty of the fishing schooners and the terrors and hardships on the waters of the notoriously inhospitable Grand Banks. Also includes background and technique.
Modernist Jewelry 1930-1960: The Wearable Art Movement (Schiffer Book for Collectors)
By Marbeth Schon
Modernist Jewelry 1930-1960: The Wearable Art Movement (Schiffer Book for Collectors)
Amazon Price: $52.21 (as of 05/26/2012)
The primary reference book for art jewelry of the mid-20th century.
More about Art Jewelry & Wearable Art
- Art Jewelry Forum | Advocate for Contemporary Studio Art Jewelry
- A non-profit collectors group, focused on the field of contemporary artist-made jewelry.
- Farlang Gem & Diamond Foundation
- Farlang Gem & Diamond Foundation would like to offer students, educators, the discerning public, and those in industries or institutions associated with geology and gemmology, the opportunity to research and continuously learn about our fascinating planet and its exceptionally creative artisans through the Earth's most prized riches.
- Montana World of WearableArt
- Wearable Art competition in New Zealand
- Port Moody Wearable Art Awards | Canadian and International Artists
- Presented by the Port Moody Arts Centre Society, the Wearable Art Awards encourage local, Canadian and international artists of all mediums to submit evocative, imaginative and thought provoking creations for the human body.
- Sacred Valley Fund: Home Page
- The Sacred Valley Fund: Wearable art from the heart of the Andes.
- Supica Jeweled
- Supica Jeweled features one of a kind, handcrafted works of art you can wear or display in your home. No two are alike, making them a unique gift!
- Wildlife Designer Clothing | Ro London's Sacred Fish Collections
- The range includes wildlife gold embroidered patterns in swimwear and luxury cruise resort wear, daring bedroom coordinates, wildlife prints and wildlife music to complement each beautiful endangered species design. The Silkprints are highly colorful, fine detailed figurative wildlife motifs printed
Form & Function: American Modernist Jewelry, 1940-1970
By Marbeth Schon
Form & Function: American Modernist Jewelry, 1940-1970
Amazon Price: $61.14 (as of 05/26/2012)
More than 50 collectors and living art jewelers lent some of the best examples of this innovative style. Features Sculptors Alexander Calder, Harry Bertoia, Jose de Rivera, Peter and Daniel Macchiarini, Earl and Tod Pardon, and Merry Rank among the 96 artists, along with their extensive jewelry creations. Their experimental work stimulated originality in successive generations.
How Do You Add A Touch of Art to Your Daily Wear?
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- I may dress like a penguin for Sarasota's more formal occasions but an artful tie redeems my conformity. I wore a vintage Nicole Miller necktie to the recent opening of La traviata at Sarasota Opera. Friends commented that it was just the ticket for the evening!
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Couture: The Art of Fine Sewing
By Roberta C. Carr
Couture: The Art of Fine Sewing
Amazon Price: $13.50 (as of 05/26/2012)
Ideal for sewers with an interest in quality, style, and individuality, this book reveals techniques once only known to the seamstresses in the couture houses of Paris.
ULRIKE Oblong Flat Crepe Silk Scarf - Colors of deep blue lakes and dark green forests.
By Ulrike
ULRIKE Oblong Flat Crepe Silk Scarf - Colors of deep blue lakes and dark green forests.
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Spontaneously painting the dyes free-hand and skillfully manipulating their bleeds and edges as they merge with the silk, Ulrike achieves uniquely soft, multi-shaded images in which, unlike printed silk, colors are equally rich on both sides of the scarf.
The Fiberarts Book of Wearable Art
By Katherine Duncan Aimone
The Fiberarts Book of Wearable Art
Amazon Price: $14.99 (as of 05/26/2012)
Only a fortunate few can afford wearable art. For the rest of us, this book provides an overview of current trends in the field and includes profiles of 39 prominent fiber artists, with generous samples of their work and insight into their working methods. Artists working in wearable art create their own fabric and/or use the surface or contours of preexisting fabric as a canvas for creating one-of-a-kind or limited-edition garments. Wearable art surprises the viewer, whose eye may be drawn to a flowing silk shibori fabric or an incredibly complex loom-knitted gown with hand-crocheted embellishments. Attesting to the current popularity of shibori, much of the text is occupied by garments that use this Japanese technique for shaping, securing, and dyeing cloth.
